“One thing I have asked of the Lord, that I will seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in his temple.” Psalm 27:4
One of the facets of the Lord that I try to pay attention to every day, is beauty. He is personally beautiful! His creation is extraordinarily beautiful! It rarely takes long to find beauty if you are looking for it. 
After 13 years in West Africa our family moved back to the United States. We moved from, Mali, the home of Timbuktu. Mali is one of the 3 poorest countries in the world. The city of Bamako where we lived is in the climatic zone called the Sahel. The Sahel is between the rain forests and the desert. Seasonally it varies between dry and dusty or humid and muddy with about 6 moths of each. The very different climate and the profound underdevelopment of Mali makes a great contrast to the forests, rolling hills and manicured lawns of Hamilton Massachusetts. We moved to attend Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. Definitely one of the prettier places around the globe. What a contrast in the beauty domain, at least as far as we generally think of it.
To honor the beauty of the Lord, today I share a few photographs that I took this week of some of the beauty the Lord places before us daily. These are fall pictures, but every season I will endeavor to share some photos that declare a bit of the beauty of the Lord.
Do you consciously look for beauty? Do you pause to enjoy it? Thank God when you notice it?
